04/04/2026
Holy Week 2026 - Saturday Reflection
"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation." Genesis 2:1-3, ESV
In the beginning of the biblical narrative, we are introduced to a God who rests. At the completion of the creation of the world, God rests. Not from fatigue. Not from the exertion of creating cosmos and creatures. The nature of our God is one that overflows with boundless joy and love and kindness and beauty.
God doesn't need to rest. But God does.
Rest is about the joy of a work completed. Rest is about the deep, satisfying experience of completing a work, beholding that work, and saying with a full heart, "It is good."
Our Bibles begin with a story of God creating. It is good.
But as the story continues, that world tragically corrupts the beautiful, good work that God had completed. What grief our Creator must have known as we marred the beauty that brought our God such joy and satisfaction in the overflow of His heart.
And so, more work would need to be done. Rescuing work. Restoring work. The Artist would need to remedy what we had ruined.
The Creator of All Things would step into human skin, and begin to be about the work or rescuing and restoring. His work would culminate in something we can barely fathom:
Jesus, the Artist through whom all things were made, would give his life for his work of art. So great is His love for what he had created. And when the work was finished, he said so.
"It is finished."
And then he rested. God rested again.
Jesus, once and for all, has finished his work of rescuing us in a way that is so whole and complete that the rest he enters and now offers to us is an eternal one, one that can never be taken away from us (Heb. 4:1-11).
Today, Behind the stone, Jesus rested in the tomb, completing forever the work that brings us an everlasting rest. All is completed. The work has been done by Jesus. Rest in Him.
Take the small, black stone from your kit, and place it on your display.
